TY - CONF A1 - Nützmann, Kathrin A1 - Frank, Thomas T1 - Influence of chromium on orientation dependent high temperature corrosion N2 - Ferritic steels with Cr-contents up to 13 wt. % are used as building components in combustion based power plants. These materials are subject to aggressive corrosion caused by the reaction of the steel with highly corrosive gases under high temperatures up to 620°C. Detailed knowledge about corrosion mechanisms regarding the attack of gaseous sulfur dioxide have a significant influence and are not entirely understood. The reaction with SO2 can be seen as two simultaneous processes; oxidation and sulfidation. Especially in the initial state, these processes are more kinetically controlled than thermodynamically. However, a detailed knowledge is a key aspect to understand the complex high temperature corrosion of high alloyed steels with a variety of alloying components ageing under combustion gases with a variety of gas components such as CO2, O2, N2, or SO2/SO3, and to better predict altering of building components and inspection intervals. To get more information about corrosion mechanisms in general and the simultaneous process of oxidation and sulfidation under SO2, initial stadia of the corrosion mechanism have to be studied. In order to minimize and control the free parameters of the corrosion procedure, simplified systems with model alloys and simplified gas compositions are a feasible tool. The current presentation will deal with the initial stages of high temperature corrosion on Fe-Cr model alloys under SO2+Ar atmospheres. Experiments took place using an infra-red light furnace with higher heating and cooling rates compared to regular tubular furnaces to preserve the high temperature phase distribution. Pure Fe, Fe with 2 wt. % and 13 wt. % Cr were used and aged for time scales between 30s < t < 6h under 0.5% SO2 and 99.5% Ar. Specific positions on each sample were marked with Vickers indentations and the crystal orientations were analyzed using ‘Electron Backscatter Diffraction’ (EBSD) to get the orientation of the ferrite grains in advance. After the corrosion experiment, the same positions were analyzed again using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and electron microprobe analysis (EMPA) to correlate the crystal orientation with the corrosion product and the elemental distribution. Further, cross sections of the samples were prepared to analyze the phase distribution in depth. Even though Cr and Fe form a solid solution in the crystal lattice, a significant difference in oxide island growth was observed for orientation dependent corrosion on different Fe-Cr alloys. T2 - Junior Euromat CY - Lausanne, Switzerland DA - 10.07.2016 KW - crystal orientation KW - corrosion KW - sulfidation PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37784 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Nützmann, Kathrin A1 - Mosquera Feijoo, Maria T1 - Nucleation and growth of sulfur phases in grain boundaries N2 - Ferritic-martensitic high temperature alloys are used as building components for different power plant technologies. Depending on the type of fuel, the used power plant materials are exposed to different temperatures and reactive atmospheres containing e.g. CO2, O2, or SO2. Despite the sulfur chemistry is commonly present as an impurity in fossil or bio fuels; its role in high temperature corrosion is not entirely understood. During high temperature corrosion, high-alloyed steels often show sulfur precipitates with the ignoble alloy component(s) along grain boundaries within the base material. Sulfur precipitates are known to seriously influence the mechanical properties of the building component. In the case of VM12 and T92 steels, sulfur phases penetrate the base material along grain boundaries during the corrosion under oxyfuel atmosphere up to 20 µm within the first 960h (Fig. 1a). Figure 1a shows the oxide scale and (Cr, Mn, Fe)xSy grain boundary precipitates in the base material for a T92 steel aged for 960h under oxyfuel atmosphere. Figure 1b shows a thin oxide scale with nodules and also sulfur precipitates of (Fe, Cr)xSy along grain boundaries of the base material for a Fe13Cr model alloy aged for 24h under SO2 atmospheres. After 24h, sulfur precipitates already reached a depth of ca. 15 µm. The present work shows the corrosion behavior of Fe-Cr model alloys with Cr-contents similar to technical steels up to 13 wt%, aged under oxyfuel (27H2O/60CO2/1SO2/10N2/2O2) and SO2 atmospheres in the temperature range of 550 °C < T < 700 °C and for different time scales between 24 h < t < 960 h. During aging, the reactive gases were added when the experimental temperature was reached. To focus on the reaction of the intended elements Fe, Cr, S, and O, model alloys of high purity are used. Transport depths of sulfur and the nucleation of the precipitates are discussed for both, model alloys and technical steels. T2 - Materials Science & Engineering CY - Darmstadt, Germany DA - 27.09.2016 KW - Corrosion KW - Sulfide KW - Sulfidation PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-37786 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Nützmann, Kathrin A1 - Schulz, Wencke A1 - Saliwan Neumann, Romeo A1 - Wollschläger, Nicole A1 - Stephan, Christiane A1 - Kranzmann, Axel T1 - The influence of sulfur on initial high temperature corrosion of Fe-Cr model alloys N2 - Ferritic steels with Cr-contents up to 13 wt. % are used as heat exchanger or boiler tube materials in combustion based power plants. These materials are subject to aggressive corrosion caused by the reaction of the steel with highly corrosive gases under high temperatures up to 650°C. The early stages of corrosion and sulfidation especially and the influence of the Cr-content in the alloy are thereby not understood but of fundamental interest. Our work shows corrosion mechanisms and presents corrosion models for Fe and different Fe-Cr-alloys under pure SO2 und SO2+O2 atmospheres for different time scales. Modell alloys of high purity are used to focus on the reaction of the intended elements: Fe, Cr, S, and O. Long-time experiments (≥12h) took place in tube furnaces and short-time experiments (≥5min) in a special designed light furnace. Heating and cooling took place under inert atmosphere. The reactive gases were added not until the experimental temperature was reached. Samples were analyzed using high resolution synchrotron X-ray diffraction using a micro focus setup and electron microscopy including FIB. Many earlier studies on corrosion and sulfidation on iron based alloys show a higher corrosion rate and material loss when sulfur was present in the atmosphere. In contrast, later studies propose an inhibiting effect of sulfur containing atmospheres. On the one side, most likely due to the formation of a protective layer of Mx(SO4)y -phases at the scale-gas interface. On the other side, a very recent study proposes the theory that MxSy-phases limit the further diffusion of elements. Up to now, no Mx(SO4)y –phases were detected in our samples, but sulfide phases nucleated within the oxide phases. For pure Fe our samples show FeS at the scale-metal interface working as a diffusion barrier for Fe-Cations from the base material in to the oxide scale. The above lying spalled off oxide-sulfide scale shows a wide area of small voids and accumulations of FeS-Crystals at the bottom. Under the main oxide scale a second generation of oxide-sulfide scale starts to form. For the Fe-Cr-alloys the inner oxide scale only shows FeS- and CrS-phases surrounded by hollow space. The here presented study will explain and discuss a new growth model for the shown phenomenon. T2 - 9th High Temperature Corrosion and Protection of Materials CY - Ile des Embiez, France DA - 15.05.2016 KW - Sulfidation KW - Diffusion barrier KW - Fe-Cr alloys PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-38250 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Nützmann, Kathrin A1 - Göbel, Artur A1 - Kranzmann, Axel A1 - Stephan, Christiane T1 - Light Furnace for Fast Phase Formations in Growing Scales T2 - MS & T CY - Columbus, Ohio, USA DA - 2015-10-04 PY - 2015 AN - OPUS4-34355 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Wollschläger, N. A1 - Nützmann, Kathrin T1 - What happens during S-corrosion in Fe13Cr in the early stage? N2 - Ferritic alloys containing Cr form Cr5S6 precipitates along grain boundaries in hot SO2 environment. Grain boundary precipitates may influence the steel’s mechanical behavior. Cr5S6 precipitates were reconstructed three-dimensionally using FIB tomography analysis to determine the volume, number, and penetration depth. The volume growth of Cr5S6 precipitates increased only for the initial aging time of 3 h but became constant after 6 h. The number of precipitates increased linearly. T2 - Meeting on Focused Ion Beams in Berlin - FIBiB2017 CY - Berlin, HZB Wannsee Campus, Germany DA - 06.11.2017 KW - Grain boundary corrosion KW - 3D tomography KW - Sulfidation PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-45061 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Nützmann, Kathrin A1 - Kranzmann, Axel A1 - Stephan-Scherb, Christiane T1 - Real time investigation of high temperature corrosion of ferritic alloys in SO2-gas N2 - The ageing of Fe-Cr model alloys in 0.5 % SO2 and 99.5 % Ar atmosphere was investigated to aim in a fundamental and systematic analysis of the combined oxidation and sulfidation mechanism. The crystallization and reaction paths for oxide and sulfide formation were followed in-situ by energy dispersive X-ray diffraction (EDXRD) in an early stage of corrosion (30 s – 24 h). For this technique, high energetic white synchrotron X-ray radiation (10-100 keV) was used as radiation source. Diffraction pattern were collected continuously in an early stage of corrosion up to 24 h during the complete ageing experiment. The crystalline phases, growing on top of the coupons, were identified directly via their specific dhkl values. The evolution of the extracted integral intensities of specific reflections of the corrosion products as a function of time access direct information about the kinetics of the nucleation and growth. The results presented here show for iron with 2 wt% Cr wuestite formation first. Wuestite vanishes after 10 min of reaction only and magnetite and hematite appear. Magnetite formation proceeds simultaneously with sulfide formation. Sulfides growth proceeds after an incubation time, which differs for low alloyed (2 wt% Cr) and high alloyed (9 wt% Cr) material. T2 - EUROCORR CY - Prague, Czech Republic DA - 03.09.2017 KW - In situ KW - Diffraction KW - Corrosion PY - 2017 SP - 79746 AN - OPUS4-44708 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Nützmann, Kathrin T1 - Corrosion mechanisms of Fe-Cr modell alloys in gas atmospheres containing SO2 N2 - In Kraftwerkstechnologien verwendete ferritische Fe-Cr-Stähle sind verschiedensten Temperaturen, Prozessdrücken und aggressiven, zum Teil schwefelhaltigen Verbrennungsgasen ausgesetzt, die zu Korrosion führen. Noch ungeklärt ist die Rolle der entstehenden Sulfide in der schützenden Oxidschicht und deren Auswirkung auf die Lebensdauer der Bauteile. Unsere Arbeit zeigt Korrosionsmechanismen ausgewählter Fe-Cr-Modelllegierungen unter Ar-SO2 Atmosphäre für verschiedene Zeitskalen. Der Focus dabei liegt auf Kurzzeitexperimenten (12h ≤ t ≤ 250h), um die initialen Stadien der Schwefelkorrosion zu untersuchen. T2 - Sektionstreffen der DMG Deutsche Mineralogische Gesellschaft CY - Bad Windsheim, Germany DA - 24.02.2016 KW - Fe-Cr Modell Alloys KW - Fe-Cr Modelllegierungen KW - Diffusion KW - Korrosion KW - Diffusion KW - Corrosion PY - 2016 AN - OPUS4-35388 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Nützmann, Kathrin A1 - de Oliveira Guilherme Buzanich, Ana A1 - Radtke, Martin A1 - Reinholz, Uwe A1 - Stephan-Scherb, Christiane A1 - Emmerling, Franziska T1 - Depth dependent phase identification of corrosion zones in ferritic alloys by micro-X-ray absorption near edge structure spectroscopy N2 - Ferritic steels with chromium contents up to 13 wt% are used as materials for power plant components as boiler materials (< 2 wt% Cr) and super heater tubes (> 9 wt% Cr). These materials are subject to aggressive corrosion caused by hot gases such as CO2, H2O, O2 and SO2. Especially SO2 causes fatal corrosion even as a minor component. To examine sulfurous corrosion mechanisms, experiments with pure SO2 were conducted. A proper analysis of the material changes requires phase identification and quantification with a high lateral resolution within the corrosion scale. T2 - ANAKON2017 CY - Tübingen, Germany DA - 03.04.2017 KW - Corosion KW - Steel KW - XANES PY - 2017 AN - OPUS4-40415 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Nützmann, Kathrin A1 - Kranzmann, Axel A1 - Stephan-Scherb, Christiane T1 - The influence of chromium on early high temperature corrosion of ferritic alloys under SO₂ atmosphere N2 - Comprehensive insights into the early stages of corrosion mechanisms provide fundamental knowledge to further understand and model long time material behaviour. The present work studies the early stages of combined oxidation and sulphidation of ferritic model alloys for time scales up to 250 h at 650 °C to observe the influence of chromium during the corrosion under SO2. Model alloys were used to focus on the reaction of the intended elements: Fe, Cr, S, and O. Pure iron simultaneously forms magnetite and iron sulphide in an early stage of corrosion, covered by a pure oxide layer after 100 h. Iron with 13 wt% Cr shows hematite and mixed Fe-Cr-oxides first, before sulphides nucleate in the inner corrosion zone. With increasing ageing time a magnetite layer is observed below the hematite layer. Quantitative phase fractions of all corrosion products observed were determined from cross section images. Characterization of the Fe13Cr corrosion scale by FIB revealed a highly porous structure in the inner corrosion zone where Cr-rich (Fe, Cr)-sulphides are present, and caused the scale to spall easily. KW - Early stages KW - Sulphidation KW - High temperature corrosion PY - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09603409.2018.1446705 SN - 0960-3409 VL - 36 IS - 6 SP - 558 EP - 568 PB - Taylor & Francis AN - OPUS4-44707 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Nützmann, Kathrin A1 - Wollschläger, Nicole A1 - Rockenhäuser, Christian A1 - Kranzmann, Axel A1 - Stephan-Scherb, Christiane T1 - Identification and 3D reconstruction of Cr5S6 precipitates along grain boundaries in Fe13Cr N2 - Metal sulfide grain boundary precipitates of a ferrous model alloy with 13 wt.% chromium formed at 650°C under a gas atmosphere containing 0.5% SO2 and 99.5% Ar were investigated after ageing for 3 h, 6 h, and 12 h. The precipitates formed along grain boundaries were identified as Cr5S6 using energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy in transmission electron microscopy and electron backscatter diffraction analysis. Serial focused ion beam slicing was conducted followed by three-dimensional reconstruction to determine the number, size, and penetration depth of the precipitates evolved at the different time steps. There was a linear increase in the number of precipitates with time, while their average size increased only for the initial aging time but became constant after 6 h. Based on these results, a model for grain boundary sulfidation of ferritic alloys is discussed. KW - Internal Sulfidation KW - Grain Boundary Corrosion KW - FIB Tomography PY - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-018-2940-y SN - 1047-4838 SN - 1543-1851 VL - 70 IS - 8 SP - 1478 EP - 1483 PB - Springer Science + Business Media CY - New York, NY AN - OPUS4-45090 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stephan-Scherb, Christiane A1 - Nützmann, Kathrin A1 - Kranzmann, Axel A1 - Klaus, M. A1 - Genzel, C. T1 - Real time observation of high temperature oxidation and sulfidation of Fe-Cr model alloys N2 - Insights into early damage mechanisms during high-temperature gas corrosion provide important aspects for the prediction of the long-term stability of hightemperature materials exposed to a hot and corrosive environment. The current work presents a real time study concerning the combined oxidation and sulfidation of ferritic model alloys in a hot SO2 containing atmosphere using energy dispersive X-ray diffraction. The applied high temperature reactor allows the transmittance of high energetic X-rays in order to collect X-ray diffraction pattern of the sample surface in situ during the reaction with the reactive environment. The results revealed that the first phases crystallizing on iron with 2 wt% chromium and with 9 wt% chromium are oxides. The aging experiments at T = 650° C with 0.5% SO2 and 99.5% Ar were followed in situ and caused an external mixed oxide-sulfide layer on top of iron with 2 wt% chromium. On the higher alloyed material the external scale consists of iron oxides and the inner scale of mixed (Fe,Cr)-oxides and chromium-sulfides. The oxide content continuously increases parallel to an increase of the sulfide amount. Thus, the initially formed (Fe,Cr)-oxides do not have a protective character and support the transport of sulfur through the growing oxide scale. KW - High temperature corrosion KW - In situ diffraction KW - Sulfidation PY - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/maco.201709892 SN - 0947-5117 VL - 69 IS - 6 SP - 678 EP - 689 PB - Wiley VCH Verlag AN - OPUS4-44776 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Nützmann, Kathrin A1 - Menneken, Martina A1 - Agudo Jácome, Leonardo A1 - Stephan-Scherb, Christiane T1 - Orientation dependent corrosion N2 - Ferritic-martensitic Fe-Cr alloys are widely utilised as materials for high temperature applications such as super heater tubes in coal, biomass or co-fired power plants. Various corrosive gases are produced in combustion processes, but especially SO2 is known to cause catastrophic application failure. In order to understand the effect of orientation and grain size of the alloy on the initial corrosion processes we analysed metal coupons of Fe-Cr- alloys (2-13 wt. % Cr) by electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) before and after exposure to SO2 containing atmospheres in 650°C for short time spans (2 min – 12 h). An infra red heated furnace with integrated water-cooling was used for the ageing procedures to conduct short time experiments and to keep the reaction products in a ‘frozen’ state. EBSD characterization of oxides formed on the surface of the alloys showed a topotactic relationship between grain orientation of the alloys and the oxides. With increasing scale thickness this relation diminishes possibly due to lattice strain. There appears to be no correlation between oxide growth and absolute, initial orientation, grain size, or the quality of polishing. An initially topotactic relationship between scale and steel had been already described for the formation of magnetite in hot steam environments, indicating that the initial corrosion mechanisms are mainly depending on the presence of Oxygen, and not changed by the presence of Sulphur. However, Sulphur is incorporated into the oxide scale in the low Cr alloy, and mainly observable in the inner corrosion zone for the higher alloyed material. Furthermore, oxides formed directly on grain boundaries in higher Cr alloyed materials are enriched in Cr compared to oxides on grain faces. T2 - EFC Workshop Dechema CY - Frankfurt am Main, Germany DA - 26.09.2018 KW - Crystal Orientation KW - High Temperature Corrosion PY - 2018 AN - OPUS4-47279 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -